füdi, a Canadian brand with freshly pre-made, globally inspired food entrées and spices is set to change the perception of pre-made entrees with its ingredients and labeling within Canada supermarkets and consumers. As of late 2014, füdi officially became available to the general public at major grocery stores across the Greater Toronto Area and will be expanding in additional markets within Ontario in Fall 2015.

The beauty of füdi is that with exception of the late availability of organic Ontario kale, their products are 95% Ontario sourced. The importance of locally grown organic produce is one of the many ways that separates füdi from its competitors within supermarket freezers.

"Only a generation ago, every meal started with a simple trip to the neighbourhood farmers' market and corner butcher," said Founder of füdi, Maurizio Racco. Adding that some of his fondest memories as a child were trips to the farmers' market with his family.

füdi products are cooked using an all-natural, preservative-free sous-vide cooking process. füdi prepares gourmet dishes that are cooked slowly to ensure a maximum amount of flavor as every ingredient is reflected in each bite. The result is a wholesome selection of international dishes perfected to appeal to the non-discriminating foodie in us all.

Racco further stated, "The importance of connecting to a more wholesome shopping experience in a fast-paced world made it an obvious alignment for füdi to partner with Southern Ontario's 'Baretta Farms' as the proud producer of organic meats that were grass-fed and raised without antibiotics."

Other füdi suppliers include Burnac as the exclusive supplier of organic Ontario baby kale, Malabar Superspice as the exclusive supplier of fair-trade spices from around the world and Ottawa Valley Grain Products for füdi pearl barley. (for further information on each supplier available)

The current entrées/SKUs available by füdi are: All entrees (370g) are retailed at $9.99 with the variety pack (1 of each) at $45.00 -Pollo Tandoori -Pollo Cajun -Pollo Alla Cacciatore -Pollo Jerk -Pollo Santa Fe The current spices/SKUs available by füdi are: All spices (100g) are retailed at $4.99 with the variety pack (1 of each) at $30.00 -Tandoori -Cajun -Cacciatore -Jerk -Santa Fe

BHIVE Social Labs loves building organic communities and understands the challenge first hand on what it takes to build one, something they call a Honey Hive. Hopefully by the end of the year, BHIVE will announce a uniquely innovative product that will be the "must have" for future digital publishers, something they tentatively call "A Honey HIVE or a Portal With An Audience".

Over the last 5 years, BHIVE has helped companies as large as a bank and as small as your local mom and pop shoppe to leverage the power of social media. Over the years, BHIVE has built an organic audience that stretches across North America which they have used for their clients. By the end of the year, or if everything goes as planned, BHIVE will be inviting a number of publishers to participate in this proposed Honey Hive Pilot Program. In short, BHIVE will enable publishers to deliver their content across a network, hence the term a Portal With An Audience aka A Honey Hive. Our own website, Mercado Magazine is actually a working Honey Hive. Nonetheless, BHIVE can't do this alone and will be seeking support from Magazines Canada and Canada Council for the Arts in the further development of this unique pilot program.

If you are interested in participating or would like to know more, please register at growyoursocialfootprint.com as we will be holding an information session over the next few months.Now onto even more exciting news: Arash Mohtashami-Maali, Head of the Canada Council for the Arts Writing and Publishing Section, is paying a special visit to Magazines Canada on July 9 and YOU are invited.

The Canada Council has announced a new funding model that will affect many of Magazines Canada's members. You have questions and Mr. Mohtashami-Maali has generously offered to pay us a "house call" to address them.

Why Is This Important?

Because batteries are a drag.

Long Story Short

University of Washington engineers have developed a surveillance camera powered not by batteries or wires, but by regular, ambient Wi-Fi signals. The camera draws enough power from nearby Wi-Fi hotspots to snap a picture every 35 minutes or so.

U.S. police are operating a co-ordinated scheme to seize as much of the public’s cash as they can

On its official website, the Canadian government informs its citizens that “there is no limit to the amount of money that you may legally take into or out of the United States.” Nonetheless, it adds, banking in the U.S. can be difficult for non-residents, so Canadians shouldn’t carry large amounts of cash.

May 4th, marked a sad day in Canadian politics. A day that future historians will mark as the date in which the entire landscape of our Canadian way of life changed in dramatic fashions. A date which should certainly be drawn upon by ALL Canadians when the time comes for our justice at the ballot box later this year.

The Conservative government’s anti-terrorism legislation has passed its final vote in the House of Commons, clearing the way for the bill to become law before Parliament rises for the summer.

This is the movie the food industry doesn't want you to see. FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history. From Katie Couric, Laurie David (Oscar winning producer of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH) and director Stephanie Soechtig, FED UP will change the way you eat forever.

In 2009, the total global electricity consumption was 20,279,640 GWh. The sun creates more energy than that in one hour. The tricky part is collecting that energy and converting it into useful electricity with solar panels. How much area would need to be covered with solar panels in order to capture enough energy to meet global demand? Actually, it’s not as much as you’d think.

The image above has three red boxes showing what area would need to be covered for Germany (De), Europe (EU-25), and the entire world.

Social media sites can be depressing because everyone else’s lives are better than yours… But are they really? The following video perfectly depicts everything wrong with our generation on social media. It may make you think about the way you use social media…

Artists including Beyonce, Daft Punk, Usher, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Kanye West and Madonna recently joined Jay Z in New York to launch Tidal, his artist-owned streaming service.

Their two targets, poor audio fidelity and a loss of artist control, indicate a dissatisfaction with the way that consumers are treating music. The Tidal revolution hopes to convince consumers that music and creativity can be better in the age of digital streaming. Yet within a day of the announcement there has already been significant backlash.

The internet is awash with scepticism of Tidal’s revolutionary claims. Though judgement should be reserved for a year or two, first impressions don’t look good. For many music fans, Tidal presents an elitist call to reverse the more democratic music revolution of the early 2000s.

Whilst Tidal’s website places focus on music fidelity, its publicity has veered more towards a story of revolutionary social justice for the arts. Tidal is framed as streaming service owned by artists. Their videos subtly rail against the use of their music as something to encourage advertising revenue or the sale of a new gadget. This publicity implies that consumers are getting music wrong. They’re listening at too low a quality, they’re paying too low a price and they’re consuming in spaces owned by the wrong people. As a result the “sanctity” of music has been lost and creativity is under threat.

University drama students were stunned when their lecturer played them an X-rated video of performance theatre - showing her vagina. Lauren Barri-Holstein screened a clip of her production Splat!, which features graphic female nudity.

As part of the introductory presentation to her Theatre and its Others module at Queen Mary University of London, the actress and PhD student showed first-year students the explicit material.

The graphic clip was described by Ms Barri-Holstein as "feminist performance art concerned with the female body".

“We know the light consumers love, and we’ve reinvented and perfected the LED to emulate incandescent light,” says John Strainic, General Manager, Consumer Lighting for GE in North America. “We know that when consumers think about energy-efficient lighting, many are deterred by the memory of early CFL bulbs produced by some manufacturers, and we want them to know that with GE LED lighting – there are no tradeoffs.”

Writers: Join our family!

With over 4MM social impressions per week, we are looking to expand our reach and relevance. Moving forward we have adopted a similar Wikipedia model and invite new writers to join our growing family. Mercado Magazine (online) will be joining other crowd-sourced online blogs and officially invites writers from all over the globe to participate and submit articles. Please feel free to contact us here for more details.